Michael Gilsenan

Recognizing Islam

An Anthropologist's Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Islam is more than a set of laws, rites and beliefs presented as a religious and social totality. As a word it covers a multitude of everyday forms and practices that are interwoven in complex, sometimes almost invisible ways in daily existence. Drawing exclusively on his own fieldwork in Egypt, South Arabia and the Lebanon, the author explores the nature of Islam and its impact on the daily lives of its followers; he shows that all the Western stereotypes of Islam and its practitioners need to be treated with considerable scepticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 183mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780415830836
• ISBN-10: 0415830834
• Artikelnr.: 36843989

Autorenporträt

Michael Gilsenan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. 1. An Anthropologist's Introduction 2. The Men of
Learning and Authority 3. The Community of Suffering and the World Reversed
4. The Operations of Grace 5. Miracles and Worldly Power: Lords and Sheikhs
in North Lebanon 6. Sheikhs and the Inner Secrets 7. Everywhere and
Nowhere: Forms of Islam in North Africa 8. Forming and Transforming Space
9. The Sacred in the City 10. The World Turned Inside Out: Forms of Islam
in Egypt 11. Islamic Signs and Interrogations. Afterword: A Way of Walking.
Note on Transliteration. References. Select Bibliography. Index